Convicted Felon Vandalizes Book Display

Dinesh D’Souza Saves America From Liberal Nazis! By Rearranging Books In A Costco

D’Souza removed his Tweet of this photo to prevent White Board Genocide

Convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza has a new book-shaped object out titled, with typical D’Souzesque understatement, The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left. You know a book-shaped object is a major work when you can’t really find a review of it outside the Wingnuttosphere, although the Washington Post and U.S. News both did reviews of a sort — of how D’Souza’s “downward slide from proto-intellectual to internet troll” is not unlike what’s happened to the Republican Party, as the latter piece put it.

Even Moar

D’Souza’s “Democrats invented racism and are still at it!!!” shtick reached its full flower in last year’s Hillary’s America movie, and as the WaPo piece notes, he’s just doing the same routine again, this time with a slightly different focus:

“The Big Lie” is the latest in D’Souza’s apparently endless series of books about the “untold history” of the Democratic Party, one that he recounts by quoting the historians who’ve already told it.

Never a fellow to let a good racist murder go to waste, D’Souza responded to this weekend’s vehicular murder following a march by Actual Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, by posting this very important message about who the REAL fascists are. The REAL fascists were the awful Leftists left dead or critically injured when they were rammed by a Dodge Challenger driven at high speed by a 20-year-old who “really had a fondness for Adolf Hitler,” according to his high school history teacher.

So really, they were victims of their own ideology, huh?

D’Souza’s perfectly understandable impulse to sell books by using terrible violence in Charlottesville as an EXCELLENT promotional opportunity got the attention of professor and WaPo contributor Daniel Drezner, who had a very simple question for the rightwing Thought Leader:

Yes. Yes he did. And he’s proud of it. And he had other thoughts about Charlottesville and leftist racists, too!

Sadly, he didn’t explain how it is that leftist KKK and neo-Nazi people and leftist anti-racist protesters were opposing each other in Charlottesville, but not a one of the people with the white polos and khakis said they loved them some Hillary Clinton.

Relevant

Also, earlier this month, to prove Democrats remain the party of old racist slave-owner Andrew Jackson — never mind that he and his Trail of Tears have fallen out of favor with modern Dems, because of both “racist slave-owning” and “Trail of Tears” — D’Souza went to the White House to promote the book with Nazi douche Sebastian Gorka and with Nazi douche Steve Bannon. That’s the Steve Bannon who praised Donald Trump’s inaugural speech as the best “since Andrew Jackson came to the White House.” Trump himself thinks Jackson was swell, though he’s a bit fuzzy on why. Trump thought Jackson, the slaveholder and anti-abolitionist, was just the guy to have stopped the Civil War, if only he hadn’t been president two and a half decades before it broke out.

D’Souza was so excited to meet the two great American opponents of fascism that he eagerly posted pictures of the visit to his Twitter account, but then removed them, possibly because Bannon called him in a panic and warned that the commies could see the Big Board. Happily, screenshots are forever, thanks to Christina Wilkie of the Center for Public Integrity:

Doktor Zoom Is the pseudonym of Marty Kelley, who lives in Boise, Idaho. He acquired his nym from a fan of Silver-Age comics after being differently punctual to too many meetings. He is not a medical doctor, although he has a real PhD (in Rhetoric and Composition).

He loves upvoting your comments but Disqus is broken and his upvotes don’t “stick.” Just assume he upvoted what you said, because it was excellent and witty.

Would love to see D’convicted felony try to show up at one of these Nazi rallies.

Maybe then realizing literally everything you’ve devoted your entire life to is a giant hypocritical lie?

The Wanderer

Oh, he’d be fine among the pseudo-intellectuals (“India? Aryan! White!”), but I think he’d fare less well among the mouth-breathers who were sent to school and only wanted to eat the books.

Villago Delenda Est

Dinesh D’Dumbfuck continues to demonstrate just what a loser felon he is.

SnarkON

This is what I don’t get: His drooling conservative followers like being Nazis. They are proud of their racism. Why is he trying to foist this shit onto Democrats when conservatives think it’s a good thing?

beatbort

Fuck this guy. The less we think about people like him, the more brain cells we will have at our command to bring down the Trump Machine.
I would prefer thinking about people like Mario Savio, who said, on Dec. 2, 1964, “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus — and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it — that unless you’re free the machine will be prevented from working at all!”

Wild Cat

Ironically, Savio grew up like me in Eastern Queens—a few miles from where the scumbag in the WH grew up.
Not ironically, Savio was totally ignored by Eastern Queens, which was a racist cesspool back then. I had no idea where he was from until I thumbed through a Rick Pearlstein book a few years back.

WotsAllThisThen

It’s really very simple. He’s saying when you look at the totality of history you’ll realize the neo-Nazis who went on a rampage this weekend are actually Obama and Hillary supporters. And obviously everyone who turned out to protest against them is Republican, just like MLK. So let’s have that new tax cut, shall we? And hurry, my extension to file is about to expire.

janecita

And Trump is a secret Democrat.

Villago Delenda Est

Well, he is destroying the Rethuglican party, so…

beingreleased

We really should have paid more attention to the KKK’s endorsement of Obama.

Oh, good. I think I’ll pass on this one, since the title and jacket copy ARE the book. Yr Editrix even gave me a special dispensation from having to review it, possibly because she could feel my left eye twitching from several hundred miles away. I may eventually give in and see the inevitable movie (yes, it’s already in the works) out of morbid curiosity.

Great review. I also liked the one by the guy who said it “wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on”….right underneath where it said he bought the “Kindle Edition”. Inadvertently funny and true!

BosGrl

Oh dear, did you see the reply? (I took a screenshot but for some reason I’m having trouble posting it)

Persistent Tennessee Rain

I clicked on the button that said the review was helpful, but I sorta lied. It was a very written synopsis and review, but I never had any intention of reading it, so, in that regard, technically it wasn’t helpful :-)

The Berserkers are willing to put up with obedient Goodlife as long as it suits them.

Keith Taylor

Naked Bunny With a Whip likes science fiction! All riiiight!!!
And written science fiction too. Not the ignorant garbage Hollywood thinks is science fiction. All riiiiight again!
I love your comments and thoughts. But one thing I’ll admit. Every time I see your sobriquet, NBWAW, on Wonkette, I have to do what the lady on FRIENDS yelled at the guys, just after she admitted having had a fling with another girl in college: “Stop picturing it!”
Sorry. No class.

No no no. I’m afraid the last three words above are ambiguous and could have given the wrong impression. I meant that every time I see “Naked Bunny With A Whip” I get an image in my head that makes me suspect I lack class — not you.

I heard a lot of this over the weekend – “Democrats are the real racists. They started the KKK. They supported slavery.”
When you try to explain how things have kinda changed since 1865, you get accused of lying or ignoring “the facts”.

ManchuCandidate

Mentally alot of them are stuck in 1865 which is why they wear onions on their belts.

weejee

Perhaps 1065.

Creepoman

Too soon!

Msgr_MΩment

I’m proud to say that in my lifetime the South has gone from a monolithic racist Democratic stronghold to a monolithic racist Ratfucklican stronghold.

So there’s that.

Wild Cat

I hope he gets tired of his current silly religion and joins the church of America’s greatest closet case, Rod Dreher.

frrolfe

I thought that Dreher was the world’s greatest religion tourist. I suppose the Benedict Option is a kind of meta-closet

The Wanderer

Spreads his books out on top of other works to make it look like there’s more. Sweet Jesus in Satin Tap Pants, what a fucking piece of work.

insolenttomato

Outside of my fantasy life I’ve never had a book sold so I may be mistaken, but isn’t it a bad thing if there are more books? As in, they’re not selling?

The Wanderer

It can also illustrate that demand is so great that the store had to lay in extra shipments of the books.

TundraGrifter

The more books on display the greater the chances somebody will purchase one of them.

Latverian Diplomat

This just in: Local Costco reports hardcover book sales drop to zero. “Due to a display error, people thought we only had this one book, and let me tell you, that book is a real stinkeroo!” explained book department manager

Latverian Diplomat

Not only did he do it; he bragged about doing it.

The Wanderer

It betrays his depth of self-awareness.

TundraGrifter

Remember – this is the guy who didn’t know he couldn’t become “engaged” to a woman who was married to his best friend at the time – and he was still married himself.

This is the guy who was president of a “Christian” college and having an affair (please see above).

This is the guy who managed to break Federal political campaign contribution laws in the 2000’s – do you have any idea how hard that is to pull off?

So I must agree with you. His self-awareness is as shallow as our President’s.

OneYieldRegular

And yet, a person so pathetic that he’s reduced to rearranging his own books in a local Costco still manages to get the ear of the Trump White House.

SnarkON

In the spirit of brutal honesty, literally everyone who has ever written a book has gone into Barnes and Noble and/or Costco and rearranged the shelves so their book is more prominent. It’s just a thing we do. That said, D’inesh D’Whatever is still an asshole.

MrTusks

B&N and Costco have somewhat different demographics. You don’t sell your book at discount wholesale clubs if you don’t have to.

If you’re also an author forgive me for authorsplaining…but if you’ve written a book and are lucky enough to get it into Costco, in front of hundreds of thousands of potential buyers, that is a stupendous coup. I would kill to have a book in Costco.

TundraGrifter

On the other hand, when I’m someplace like an airport book shoppe and I find a particularly offensive volume I turn it around or otherwise hide it.

The Wanderer

I’d tuck it under a pile of wanking material.

Wild Cat

“Bovine milk and cow patties! Aryan Power! Bovine milk and cow patties! We will not be replaced! Bovine milk and cow patties!”

It shouldn’t have to be necessary to point out that cartoon violence is different from real violence, but I fear there are too many who don’t understand it.

Msgr_MΩment

So if protest Nazis are cartoonish thugs, it’s okay to punch their votes out?

alwayspunkindrublic

If he ever shows up at a rally of his beloved white supremacists, he fuck well better be carrying a giant photo of Hitler with the caption “I’m with him”, or those ignorant dickwads will kick his South Asian ass into the next life.

ManchuCandidate

The Subhas Chandra Bose* of our time.

*Nazi collaborator who didn’t think things through.

Wild Cat

Some of those asswipes were flattered by “Aryanism” and the use of the swastika.

The Wanderer

Worked for the Japanese, too, and again didn’t examine the possible outcomes.

SnarkON

D’ickwads. FIFY

MrTusks

He has appeared at white supremacist rallies, lots of times. But they were more incidental than official.

alwayspunkindrublic

To the extent that all gatherings of Republicans these days are de facto white supremacist rallies of a sort, yes.

Suttree

And not a fuck was given by anyone.

insolenttomato

Ooh! Ooh! Let me guess what else is in his birdcage-liner of a book: the Republicans were the “party of Civil Rights” because MLK was a Republican, the late Senator Robert Byrd was in the KKK, and HRC called high level drug dealers “superpredators,” which in no way got taken out of context. Did I get BINGO?

The Wanderer

Having not read a word of the book, I will say that you get Bingo.

insolenttomato

I read Cult Jam’s Amazon review of it, which I’ve decided counts.

Wild Cat

You win a container of Dal.

insolenttomato

Fer yum!

Royal Ugly Dude

Worse, Hillary was a Goldwater Girl!

Villago Delenda Est

Apostates need to suffer, dontcha know?

Persistent Tennessee Rain

They conveniently ignore that Strom Thurmond left the Democratic Party and became a Republican because the Democrats weren’t racist enough.

PubOption

It’s terrible (or hilarious, if you prefer) that his only surviving descendants are black.

insolenttomato

I’d imagine his descendants are doing whatever the animate equivalent of “turning over in their grave” is.

insolenttomato

I have gotten into so many circuitous arguments on Facebook about Strom and his Dixiecrat party. As a result, I’m reasonably sure my liver is going to crawl out of my mouth and make a break for it.

La forza del resistino

Pop quiz: who was the last convicted D’felon to visit the WH?

Msgr_MΩment

If you include future felons, AOT,K.

Latverian Diplomat

D’Souza’s original plan to give his book more exposure by moving it to the restrooms failed, as no one would even wipe their ass with it.

Unfortunately no – got distracted by the big giant boxes of. Frankenberry and the live emus.

Latverian Diplomat

“Democrats invented all the evil in the world!”

“Well, let’s run down your list of things that are evil. Equality before the law? Dignity of the individual regardless of socioeconomic status? Honesty? Science? Sexual freedom? Reproductive rights? Freedom from religious indoctrination? Valuing diversity? Respect for others?”

“Yes! Exactly! So evil, so very evil!”

doktorzoom

LINCOLN FREED THE SLAVES AND ROBERT BYRD WAS A DEMMIECRAT!

Persistent Tennessee Rain

…and Trump’s affinity for pussy grabbing is ancient history.

Wild Cat

To his credit, I heard he’s very romantic. He still has a vial of Laura Ingraham’s yeast infection on his mantle.

Royal Ugly Dude

Ew

Wild Cat

Even worse, she has a pro-nazi book coming out soon.

Me not sure

Is mantle a euphemism for foreskin?

Baconzgood

That’s it. I’m putting an end to this comment thread because….yuck.

Me not sure

Do I have go sit in the corner again? Awww!

proudgrampa

Thank you.

Serai 1

Mantel. “Mantle” is a cape.

Me not sure

When people SELF IDENTIFY as both Nazis AND conservatives how can any one say that they are liberal? It just boggles the mind! Liberal, strictly speaking, is a reference to a type of governance that derives it’s authority from the will of the governed. It is not the opposite of conservatism it is the opposite of authoritarianism. Conservatism is the opposite of progressivism. Comparative Politics 101.

alwayspunkindrublic

Stupid elitist with your “logic” and “facts”.

TundraGrifter

Because the German word for Socialist is in the full name of the Nazi party.

Many people don’t know that.

Villago Delenda Est

Marketing hype. Those among the Nazis who actually bought into the “Socialist” part were purged in the Night of the Long Knives.

The Wanderer

Yep. Roehm and the SA bragged about bringing about a Second Revolution and toppling the Reichswehr, the Generals Staff, the aristocracy and the big corporations.

TundraGrifter

Along the gay men who were out. The survivors really had to burrow into the closet after that.

Me not sure

North Korea calls itself a “People’s Democratic Republic” too. It is none of those things.

Do the squirrels work for the dolphins now? I would welcome our new aquatic overlords.

Serai 1

“You sure you want to come along? We don’t have any trees on our planet, you know.”

calliecallie

I just love this. I hope they are communicating. We need guidance.

BadKitty904

IKR? The hairless monkeys have done a pretty poor job of running this planet, so far…

OneYieldRegular

“Until we’re freed, it’s up to you. Dash in front of cars, chew through electrical wires, get inside the walls of their houses.”

Christopher Story

Quick poll: how many Charlottsville racists voted for Democrats?
Fuck you D’Douchebag

TheGrandWazoo2

D’Souza and the D’Plorables. Worst Prussian Blue cover band ever.

TundraGrifter

It’s not “cover band.” It’s now “tribute band.” I don’t know when that change happened. But it did.

proudgrampa

Yeah. What’s with that? Just saw a John Denver “tribute.” He was good, but it was just a bunch of covers…

TundraGrifter

Last night, the PBS fundraiser show as a gentlemen performing as a Johnny Cash tribute band. I can understand why someone would see him perform live. But he also has CD’s out there. Why would anyone buy and listen to them rather than listen to Johnny Cash himself.

Only when it comes to Elvis are they “impersonators.” Asked about them during a tour of Graceland, our guide gave the standard line “We’ve never seen one that looks like Elvis but they all look like each other.”

Kiri the Unicorn

Strangelove was originally supposed to end in a pie fight in the War Room.

TundraGrifter

I’ve been in a real, live pie fight with real pies. It was a lot of fun.

proudgrampa

I went to a Mazola party once. THAT was a lot of fun!

Erala Contratista

Must have taken some time and a LOT of detergent….

proudgrampa

Plastic sheeting…

Erala Contratista

I’mma blonde…you were dressed in plastic sheeting? Wasn’t it warm?

proudgrampa

Uh, we weren’t DRESSED in plastic.

If I have to explain it… ;-)

The Wanderer

I’ve seen the outtakes of that. It ended up on the cutting room floor because it seemed out of place, as I recall.

Kiri the Unicorn

*nods* It would be weird to segue to something like that.

The Wanderer

But bomb test footage while Dame Vera Lynn sings = perfectly okay.

Kiri the Unicorn

I think it works beautifully. The only thing I’ve ever found dissonant about that movie is dubbing “Vegas” over Major Kong saying “Dallas”.

Bub, the cynical zombie

I remember reading an interview with George C. Scott where he claimed there was to be a scene of him cradling President Muffley after he has been hit by a pie and making a speech about “Our President has been struck down in the prime of his life!” Scott said that, in the wake of Kennedy’s assassination they felt they couldn’t make that fly.

Interestingly, Major Kong’s comment “A feller could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff!” was originally read as “Dallas,” and later redubbed.

TundraGrifter

D’Minished D’Ranged unseemly obsession with Costco (of all booksellers!) goes back to when his previous turgid tome didn’t sell so they packed up the books and returned them to the publisher. That’s the book biz.

His dozens of fans protested to the point where Costco brought the book back. “Censorship?” #seriously? Costco made the damn thing available in the first place. If their decision was political (as if) they simply wouldn’t have ordered it the first time.

Of course the book didn’t sell the second time, either. Those few who complained to Costco management had either already bought it or couldn’t read it.

Bub, the cynical zombie

All of D’Stupid’s vile oeuvre should be pulped and made into toilet paper. With his grinning face on every sheet. That is a product I would buy and use happily. As the Charmin slogan says: “Why not enjoy the go!”

I’ve heard urban legends about people taking steaming dumps in demo model toilets that aren’t hooked up to anything. I’m a bit sad that no one added anything to this pile of shit.

Kiri the Unicorn

Oh, but think of the employee who would get to clean it up!

The Wanderer

Yeah, some sympathy for that person.

Liquid Tomato

When I worked retail, I hated most pranks, but I think I would have enjoyed that. Like, yeah, I’ll re-stack these, but I agree, this is where they belong.

WotsAllThisThen

Damn these low flow toilets!

Snark Tank Full of Resistance

“Oh, my God! Fat Bastard left a floater!”

Zonath

At least in this case, the book title seems like it’s wholly reflective of the contents, although the page count seems a little light to be labeled “big”.

The chapter on how FDR and Truman secretly had a gay sex orgy with Hitler, Tojo, and Mussolini where they secretly entered into a pact to nuke Topeka (secretly!) seems a little over the top. I’d point out that Topeka seems pretty un-nuked these days, but I’m sure Dinesh just thinks that an un-nuked Topeka is just what the Nazi Left wants you to believe in.

I get so irritated whenever right-wingers say “socialist is in the Nazi party’s name of national socialism so therefore the Nazis were socialists!” Hey Dinesh, that’s like saying North Korea is a democracy because “democratic” is in their party name. Do you even history?

Hell, I’m a monster, too: I love me some ravioli — yes, Chef Boyardee — especially now that I live in Tokyo AND CAN’T GET ANY.

SeeTrain65

Yeah! Good thing I don’t eat any of that crap!

(Hides numerous cans of SpaghettiOs.)

Erala Contratista

Hey! Can still get canned tamales!
Monstruoso!

Ezio

Oh by the way, semi-OT: The creator of “Godwin’s law” says it is appropriate to call white nationalists Nazis. Thereby shutting down all right-wingers who say “stop comparing the alt right to Hitler” forever.

My own take on Godwin’s law is that the reason it’s normally unfair to compare people to Nazis is that the Nazis were a successful political movement that got people to vote for them by speaking out on a wide range of political issues. Thus one could claim to be in favor of certain issues (like gun control and lowering unemployment) that Nazis also claimed to favor, without being or admiring Nazis.

My own rule of thumb is that it becomes fair and reasonable to compare people to Nazis when what they have in common with Nazis (like hatred for all non-whites) is why being compared to Nazis is an insult.

dslindc

Oh Christ, it’s this D’Asshole Again!

WeaselPoo

Lol

SeeTrain65

“Oh, no, not D’is D’umbfuck Again.”

TheGrandWazoo2

Sometimes you have to feel pity for such pig-headed thinking. This is not one of those times.

Robbertjan Brandenburg

Dinesh D’souza sound like a name Trump wants to deport. For once that sounds like a good plan.

Oh, Dinesh, you realize that if the Nazis gain more power in America, they’re going to throw you into a boxcar too, right?

Suttree

Apparently not. He is a fucking idiot though.

SeeTrain65

“But … but … but … I’m one of the good ones! Trump said so!”

Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

A lot of people forget the second part of “I for one welcome our new insect overlords” is “I’d like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.”

It’s about being the token one that survives and pacifies the rest.

TundraGrifter

A kapo.

Pax Americana Per Ars Smith

So, Ben Carson?

Thiazin Red

Serena Joy disorder. They all think that if they help put the oppressors in power that somehow the rules won’t apply to them.

alwayspunkindrublic

Every camp needs a kapo or three to help keep a foot on the neck of their own.

Good_Gawd_Yall

Until he went to prison I had never heard of this particular moldy lump of smegma. How I long for those happier days.

The Wanderer

Fromunda cheese libel!

cmd resistor

I was spared knowing about him until one day a stupid cartoon he promoted appeared in my FB feed. I spent a brief time trolling his FB page (in a very mild manner, in the scheme of things) and then got banned. He is one of the biggest jerks out there.

SeeTrain65

I am still of the opinion that “The Big Lie” is actually an biography of Bannon’s days at Breitbart, written by someone who knows how to write and doesn’t suck on his own toes.

Isn’t it illegal for a Federal government employee to advertise a product like that? Isn’t that what poor Kellyanne Conway got into a very mild spot of trouble over?

Snark Tank Full of Resistance

I blame Alanis Morrisette for fucking it up with that damn song. RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY ISN’T IRONIC, you stupid twat!

insolenttomato

I just try and imagine that she lived in Seattle and wanted to get married in Tuscan because of the dry weather, but on her wedding day it rained in Tuscan and was clear in Seattle.

Gee, Your Hair Smells Horrific

I look forward to his next book: “Disenfranchised: How the Radical Left is Making it Harder to Vote.” The book release party will almost surely be followed by the closing of every DMV in black sections of Mississippi.

Real question here. I have a loved one who insists that the Nazis were socialists because it’s in their name. He also won’t listen to me about the Southern Strategy, so us Dems are responsible for the KKK, etc. What are the best texts for him to read (since he won’t listen to me) that are scholarly and yet easy for his Brietbarted brain to absorb? He’s had his mind changed with facts before, so I do hold out hope for him.
Suggestions?

Truck Fump

None. They don’t want to know any different. Speaking from experience. :(

MizzMazz

Thank you everyone. It’s hard, because we agree on so many things, but this Trumpism shit has brought out the worst in him. I would like to say because he’s old, but I’m old, and I find myself going more to the left, trying more to understand other folks and shut up and listen, so I can’t really blame age.

TundraGrifter

I’ve read that Hitler was very upset by that and wanted to change the name. He was told the brand had already been established and it was too late.

Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

You could always mention to him that the Nazis were given to euphemism or lying when it suited them. “Arbeit macht frei” and all that.

But in my experience, this isn’t a fact-based issue. It’s emotional. They need to believe that the Nazis were left-wing because otherwise they’d have to realize right-wing extremism is as bad as any other kind.

Hide his radio and block Breitbart. If seeing assholes shouting “Heil Trump!” won’t change his mind, I don’t know what will.

MizzMazz

Me either. Thank you. I will make him watch videos of these assholes, for what good it might do.

Persistent Tennessee Rain

Build a brick wall in your back yard and beat your head against it. It will be more productive and less painful than what you are trying to accomplish with your loved one.

MizzMazz

I wish I had a backyard, and I haven’t laid brick in a while, but I will not give up on him just yet. Now I’m wondering what I did with my trowel.

doktorzoom

Perhaps note that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is not a democracy or a republic, and its people have no actual role in how the country runs? But it sure is on the Korean peninsula.

CriticalDragon1177

Keep in mind that many of Trump’s most backwards, wingnutty, racists supporters would just love for him to be able to rule America like Kim Jun Un.

MizzMazz

Thanks, Dok. I’ll try it again, if I can get over the mansplaining and interruption. I now have a bunch of books coming and as usual the people here have been good and helpful. Thank you for all that you do (to everyone)

cats530

“The Authoritarians” by Professor Robert Altemeyer (who invented the RWAS – Right Wing Authoritarian Scale). Though he’ll still be in major denial about right wing authoritarians. Have him take the personality test too. I’ll bet he’ll receive a very high score.

P.S. “Escape from Freedom” Eric Fromm and “Conservatives Without Conscience” John Dean, too.

MizzMazz

The Authoritarians is very good. I will look into the other titles too. He likes tree meat books, so I will make a stack in the bathroom, where he reads >:)

COtter

I loved The Nazi Seizure of Power, a book by William Sheridan Allen. I read it in a modern European History class at UNC and our professor was a since reformed member of the Hitler Youth. The book does an in depth analysis of the people joining the Nazi party in a single German town in the 1930s, and the driving factor was a fear of socialism/communism.

MizzMazz

Thank you for that.

Buying it now.

COtter

You may want to read it yourself first. It was a very detailed and thorough analysis of the growth of the Nazi Party in one town, Northeim, from its inception to its occupation by the Americans. When your professor wore lederhosen and carried a panzerfaust instead of wearing a polo shirt and carrying a tiki torch it drives home the point. Basically, the Nazi party expanded by playing to middle class fears of a socialist takeover.

foiled again

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Major_Major_Major

Holy shitballs, his book is featured at CostCo, Dollar General, and flea market stalls everywhere. Does this come up as one of the top hits ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remaindered_book ) when on e google’s this assclown? If not, we should make it so.

SeeTrain65

And soon to be featured in the “Remaindered” bin. Like all his other “works.”

it really does seem to be a complete rehash of Goldberg, plus the observation that Trayvon Martin was nothing but a modern Horst Wessel.

WeaselPoo

Looking forward to Dinesh’s next film project: “Dinkerkkk”: The untold story of how British and French liberal fascists snatched victory from German liberal fascists and began Hillary Clinton’s murderous reign as the Queen of liberal fascism.

doktorzoom

Also, too: Make sure to take a few minutes to read Nicole Hemmer’s terrific piece about D’Souza’s descent into mere trolling at U.S. News. It’s very, very sharp and funny.

Mavenmaven

That made my day,

Zyxomma

That was an enjoyable distraction, but I won’t share anything on someone I keep wishing would just fade away.

george lastrapes

D’Souza is the high-school debater who never grew out of it- insufferable, cynical, forever trying to ingratiate himself to bullies.

cats530

Well, he’s right. His book is a BIG LIE about Nazi roots on the left.

Professor Fate

HIs moving the books around in Costco is so beyond pathetic that I don’t think there is even a word for it. If he wasn’t a hate filled self loathing troll one might be tempted to feel sorry for him. It’s one thing to sell out, it’s another to sell out at a discount.

Master Contrail Program

Save big when you lie in bulk!

Erala Contratista

Can you hear the Costco employee’s eyeroll when they got to tidy up that “display”?

Beanz&Berryz

Manager: “Box them and send them back to the publisher”

foiled again

“Clean-up on Aisle Stinky”.

Old town Urbandale

And making the pile look bigger is actually sending the the opposite message of what D’Sousa thinks it does. It says, “Look at how badly this has sold in book stores and online at full price!”

The father of a man identified as a participant in a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, publicly denounced his son’s “vile, hateful, and racist rhetoric and actions” on Monday.

“My name is Pearce Tefft, and I am writing to all, with regards to my youngest son, Peter Tefft, an avowed white nationalist who has been featured in a number of local new stories over the last several months,” he wrote in a letter to North Dakota-Minnesota news site Inforum.

Tefft’s father said his son “did not learn” white nationalist rhetoric “at home” but attended the rally Saturday in Charlottesville, where he “was interviewed by a national news outlet while marching with reported whitenationalists.”

“We have been silent up until now, but now we see that this was a mistake. It was the silence of good people that allowed the Nazis to flourish the first time around, and it is the silence of good people that is allowing them to flourish now,” he wrote. “Peter Tefft, my son, is not welcome at our family gatherings any longer.”…

Beanz&Berryz

And bunches of other good people like him…

Mavenmaven

So in reality Trump and Bannon are actually leftists as are the white supremacists supporting them, and it is the left that is actually right, and D’Souza is a actually an intellectual and an ethical person.

CriticalDragon1177

I would say that you must be talking about the wingnut parallel universe, but in that universe Trump couldn’t be a leftists, because the leftists are the “badguys” and Trump is a “good guy”

Mavenmaven

Now I’m so confused! :)

JustPixelz (((Ω)))

I wish I’d thought of blaming Obama and the Demoncrats for the nightmare of being white and wealthy in America today. Would have helped my book sales. Also, random women would want to have sex with me, I’m told.

Bill Diaz

Dinesh D’Souza is Donging D’Ann Coulter, is that really want you want for your life? Come to Vermont, we have a ‘Death with Dignity’ law.

Have a great day!

TundraGrifter

Ten bucks says when D’Minished went to the White House he only brought one copy of his book. He didn’t give it to anybody (or else he’d already inscribed it to Mr. Trump) – it was just a prop.

JustPixelz (((Ω)))

Or for ten bucks you can get ten copies of his book when it goes “on sale” in a few weeks.

TundraGrifter

A penny for his thoughts would be a gross overpayment.

foiled again

Or seventeen for free sale when it goes to pulping.

CriticalDragon1177

Wouldn’t be surprised if he gave one to Trump though, since he probably thinks his nonsensical arguments could help Trump win the next election. Trouble is through that even if he could somehow convince mainstream Americans that fascists were leftists, it would really upset his alt right supporters that now Trump was openly attacking fascists and fascism.

TundraGrifter

As if Mr. Trump would actually read a book!

Johnatx

Doesn’t D’vorce D’spousa realize that the Nazis would ethnically cleanse his ass (and not with votes) if they ever got the chance?

CriticalDragon1177

Doktor Zoom,

Maybe you guys should do a Sunday’s with the Christianists post where you debunk some of the biggest lies from Dinesh D’Souza’s propaganda book. I would be willing to bet that most of his arguments are just as pathetic as this.

Wookie Monster

Debunking all of Dinesh D’Ouchebag’s lies would taken another whole book.

CriticalDragon1177

He doesn’t have to debunk all of them, just some of the more egregious ones, would be enough to discredit him and show him to be the laughing stock that he is.

Wookie Monster

If debunking lies discredited wingnuts, Fox would be airing nothing but a test pattern 24/7.

CriticalDragon1177

If we just get some of the fence sitters, its better than nothing, and who knows, it might help prevent Trump from getting reelected, especially if the Democrats do something really stupid come the 2020 election.

Yes, if we lived in a world where the Democrats never stopped being the party of Jim Crow, and the Confederacy and Trump was a Democrat.

Parakeetist

Convicted felon says what?

TundraGrifter

Why wasn’t he deported?

toughsister

Distort D’NEWZA is at it again. The man has no more shame than a 2-dollar whore. If today’s republican party bears any resemblance to the party of Lincoln, then I am Brad Pitt’s identical twin. And if the democratic party at Reconstruction bears any resemblance to the party of John F. Kennedy, I am Hugh Jackman’s long-lost brother.

I’d be interested to see a study and subsequent quantification of the level of shame of a sample of two dollar whores.

Resistance Fighter Callyson

Who?

TundraGrifter

The guy who posed such a threat to his Administration that Mr. Obama personally saw he was railroaded on a bogus charge of Federal political campaign contribution law violations.

Just ask him.

Bright Bart

I’m trying to read the whiteboard in the background. all i can make out is Canadian bacon tarriff?!

LesBontemps

No no, it clearly says “Canadian bacon treif,” because of course it is.

Beanz&Berryz

At a food cart this weekend there was a menu item, french fries covered in gravy, called Vladimir Poutine…

Liquid Tomato

That’s right. It’s a little talked about issue. The Canadian government is subsidizing the Canadian bacon industry. The American Canadian bacon industry can’t compete.

Crank Tango

Make American Canadian bacon great again!

clubseal

First they came for the Canadian bacon and I said nothing, because I think it is gross and slimy.
Then they came for … well I guess that’s it. Good riddance.

Zyxomma

I. Just. Can’t.

John Thorstensen

Back in the 80s at Dartmouth Dinesh was an editor of the Dartmouth Review, which also included Laura Ingraham. The Dartmouth Review was an incubator for far-right talking heads; if I recall, Colbert’s on-air character’s biography had him going to Dartmouth and graduating in the 51st percentile of his class. The Review has since faded into the background — as far as I can tell, no one pays them much mind any more. They overreached when they compared a Jewish President of the college (James Freedman) to Hitler. He let them have it with both rhetorical barrels to great effect; this after years of pussyfooting around on the part of the administration. This earned him a standing ovation at the faculty meeting.

Bitter Scribe

Also, didn’t they do an over-the-top offensive parody of Ebonics that earned them a punchout by some black faculty member?

John Thorstensen

If I remember they basically invaded the classroom of a black ethnomusicologist and I think he got a bit physical. I don’t think anyone punched them for the ebonics thing, but it was as vile as you might imagine.

mailman27

OK, OK so Democrats are the real conservatives then?

Daniel Hooper

Listen, I get it. As a writer who’s also desperate for attention and also writes fiction, sometimes you really push to promote your material. But sometimes you cross a line that you really shouldn’t. Seriously; you don’t see me promoting Cowgirl City(Available from Amaon Direct Publishing) on here, do you? That would be crass.

Les Appentis De la résistance

I wonder if he could get arrested for smuggling copies of his book into the store without paying.

Khavrinen

I “Z” what you did there.

3FingerPete

If you make your protagonist hate Barack Obama you can probably get a vendor table at CPAC. You don’t have to make any other changes. Write a compelling character doing compelling things who, by the way, happens to hate Barack Obama.

The Librarian

D’Lie is D’Souza is D’intellectual

Wookie Monster

He’s a D’ouchebag.

WotsAllThisThen

Republicans freed the slaves and this is how Democrats responded?

Huh. I didn’t know Obama and John Lewis were both in the Klan! Well except all the many times right wing facespace friends shared this same ludicrous distortion of history. Bet they didn’t realize they could sell a propaganda meme in book form.

Trump himself thinks Jackson was swell, though he’s a bit fuzzy on why.

“Fuzzy” is Trump’s default setting.

cheetojeebus

All i can muster for the likes of Dsouza et al is a long string of expletives without grammar, nuance or moderation. You can imagine the scope of said expletives given the weekend’s events. I don’t have the energy to type them all out.

Wookie Monster

So, if the Nazis are leftists, why was their rally called “Unite the Right?”

WotsAllThisThen

Dyslexia?

foiled again

Taxonomical Moebius strip…?

Les Appentis De la résistance

Dumb?

Grumpy Twat

No, No. Your other Right!

Biel_ze_Bubba

Because “Unite the Wrong”, while much more honest, seemed to have a downside?

Maybe Dinesh should have gone there and explained to them that they were really Democrats and leftists and the GOP is the true party of racial tolerance and equality. I’m sure that would have gone over well

mardam422

Democrat and Republican are names. The ideology underpinning one has completed its move to the other. It’s the bankrupt ideology I care about you loser.

Unsaintific

You just explained the moral history of the parties brilliantly with such simplicity.

The so called argument to smear the current democratic party on the basis of name and not on the basis of moral standard has always seemed immature and dishonest to me.

TakingAmes

Republicans, immature and dishonest? Nooooooooo…

Debbie the Unpaid Protester

They are either completely pig-ignorant ignorant about history or disingenuous as fuck.

Hmmm, i wonder which it could be?

🛶🗣️ Mr Canoehead 🛶🗣️

“seemed”?

Unsaintific

My bad. Corrected it.

WotsAllThisThen

Don’t you get it? When the civil rights act was passed in 1965, all the racist klansmen moved to northern cities, but they kept voting democrat, while all the abolitionists moved to the south to vote republican and share funny memes about Obama and watermelons har har har. This is how the electoral map flipped.

Wookie Monster

Someone really needs to explain to Dinesh D’Ouchebag that no matter how hard he tries, republicans are not going to make him an honorary white man.

Bitter Scribe

Sure they are. Some of them at least. Asians, including West Asians, are the “good” minority, as long as they say and do what Republicans want.

JustDon’tSayDignity

See Kipling, Rudyard.

Brendan_M

I’m sure people of South Asian descent would be happy to pawn him off on us, though.

TundraGrifter

I believe the 19th Century epithet was “WOG.” Not a very nice term, at all.

WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot

To be fair, D’felon’s books are shit so they normally float up and spread out into a thin film staining all the other books.

foiled again

“My Booky Wook” by Dinesh D’souza.

Poly_Ester

Do you think Dinesh has even taken a high school level US History course?

Biel_ze_Bubba

Maybe with Texas schoolbooks?

Les Appentis De la résistance

All the leftist KKK, Nazis, and racists showed up at a ‘Unite the Right’ festival? Didn’t they realize they were in the wrong place? Boy those leftists sure are stupid.

Tokays_don’t_blink

Logic! It burnsses usss!

Khavrinen

“Trump himself thinks Jackson was swell, though he’s a bit fuzzy on why.”

The first three words in his book title work great. He should have stopped there.

I mean really stopped. Just that title; no book.

Manhattan123

What a sniveling little self-loathing worm. I wonder if he thinks his alt-right pals actually like him? I wonder if he’s ever curious what those peals of laughter are he hears when he leaves a room full of conservatives?

Oblios_Cap

I have it on good authority that rearranging books has saved the country more than one time in its history.

TundraGrifter

It kinda makes sense because Mr. Trump’s CPAs and other financial minions sure know how to juggle the books.

In one of his silly books (and movies) D’Minished D’Ranged claimed Mr. Obama was raised by an “anti-colonial” father.

Now, who do you know who is (or was) “pro-colonial?” The Tories during the American Revolution, of course. Perhaps the French in Algeria or the Belgians down in the Congo. Or the Spanish when they came to the New World and wiped out the locals with slavery and disease.

William

I think Mr. D’convicted would become instantly enlightened if he would simply wear a turban to any bar south of the Mason Dixon that boasts at least an 80 percent pickup truck (with gun rack) ratio in it’s dirt parking lot, and a bar maid named ____Sue, or ______Lynn.

Cat Cafe for the Prosecution

That was one of his most utterly idiotic statements ever. His father, a Kenyan, was anti-colonial because he was against BEING OVERRUN AND OVERRULED by an outside colonial power. Just like, you know, another country that started back in the 18th century, I can’t remember which one, it’s on the tip of my tongue.

TundraGrifter

Haiti?

kareemachan

I would ask people about that, and never found out why anti-colonialism was so horrible. They’d just mutter something about birth certificates.

TundraGrifter

Remember when Mr. Obama correctly stated the Constitution of the United States of America is a document of “negative liberties?”

The mouth-breathing Regressives just heard “negative” and “liberties” and starting whining about how he hated America.

Back in college we worked for a day taking inventory in a grocery store. One the kids spent 8 hours in front of a giant wire barrel full of packs of gum, counting them…

William

I hope that counted for at least a partial credit for something.

TundraGrifter

Cash money. Better than selling blood.

Odd Jørgensen

30 years ago I worked part time for a year at a place selling plumbing supplies in bulk, mainly to plumbers weirdly. round new years, we were doing inventory, and i was assigned the task of counting everything, from 2` pipes down to teeny tiny fidgety things, and there were hundreds and thousands of the lil fuckers. management were amazed when I came up with the idea of weighing them, then dividing by weight. How come they never thought of something like that before is a mystery to me.

So we’re the Nazis now? Shit, the convicted felon isn’t even writing his own material now, he’s just plagiarizing Jonah Goldberg.

Cheesy Poofs

Let D’Felon show up anonymously at a Trump rally without the little red trucker hat and let’s see how long it takes before he has red-faced white people screaming at him to go back to where he came from.

TakingAmes

Precisely.

Lyly Sirivong

Oh I thought he was going to go with the good old “Nazis are leftists because National Sozialismus !”

Saxo the Grammarian

Waitaminute, doesn’t Costco sell remaindered books at a steep discount? Not current bestsellers?

Biel_ze_Bubba

His audience can’t be found in bookstores.

Susie Lochary

His audience can’t read….they just wait for the movie version!

kareemachan

Actually, no. Most are best sellers that they can sell at a reduced price because they buy them in such massive quantities that the publishers give them a good discount.

The Republicans who were prime movers in enacting the first CRA would be detested RINOS today. Most of them today would be victims of primaryitis who could never be crazy enough to qualify as a “real Republican”.

The level of basic stupidity and historical ignorance in this man’s arguments is nothing short of mind boggling, although not at all surprising.

Ray in VT

Nice to see him getting a photo op with Gorka, the man who wears a pin from a group that collaborated with the Nazis.

Ducksworthy

Did Goa side with Salazar?

Ray in VT

??

lurch394

Hard to say. Salazar certainly wanted to hang on to all Portugal’s foreign possessions. The Indian Army took back Goa in 1961 and Portugal officially recognized that in 1975, after the Carnation Revolution and 14 years of non-possession. That’s the same time the colonies in Africa and elsewhere in Asia became independent.

BreakingDeadMen

I think we should focus on getting Miller, Bannon and Gorka out of the White House. Pressure your GOP reps that want to be on the side of sanity to insist on it. The fight against fascism starts at home.

Meran Ni Cuill

Honestly, we need to Wipe the White House itself clean of more than just those you named.
Lol. And I’m usually rather more of a moderate… not since the election though. I’m still stunned, in shock. Mornings are “well, let’s see how much shit hit the fan last night while I was sleeping”…

BreakingDeadMen

No disagreement from me. In the three days since I wrote this, I think it has gotten to the point that Trump leaving is a question of how soon and under what terms.

Meran Ni Cuill

We can only hope…

BJW

Fight Nazis and be Nazis! Thanks for the chuckle Doc.

Keith Taylor

Astonishing how many of these sorts of people have been in trouble with the law, and invariably try to flip it to, “It wasn’t because of my grifting tax cheating cheque forging embezzling real-estate-regulation-ignoring sex-offending activities at all, it was the big bad government persecuting me for my beliefs, wah boo hoo!” Jim Bakker, Dinesh D’Souza, Kent Hovind, and for that matter way back to Erich von Daniken, who would be relatively harmless and not obnoxious except that he did so much more than one man’s share to lower standards of scholarship and critical thinking around the world. I forget who said it, though it might have been Carl Sagan, but someone cogently observed that playing fast and loose with the truth, even in archaeology and ancient history, which some might not think is all that bad, still kind of is, because what if the next unprincipled liar who comes along should be peddling “a war or a social scapegoat?”
Well at least that never happened, eh?

Shane

Dinesh The Talking Foreskin dribbles his nonsense again.

anomie

What DOES the big board say? I’ve been zooming and expanding.. something about welfare and taxes (gods help us) and EOs and NAFTA….

Eric Mory

Leave off the subtitle and the book’s title becomes it’s own review of the content.

mondojohnson

Herr Doktor, I believe the correct adjective is “D’Souzaphonic.” #corrections

RSSAA

You spelled Divorce D’Spousa’s name again.

shocktreatment

My spell check keeps giving me “Didouche D’Looza”…

MoeLarryAndJesus

His prison name was D’Toss D’Salad.

Teto85

Glad Wonkette remembered the “Convicted felon” prefix to Mr D’Souza’s name. Other left of centre sites seem to forget that.

Keith Taylor

This should always be remembered, and not just in his case. It is AMAZING — or more probably, not — how many of these super-right-wing whackos have been in trouble with the law over financial and sexual offenses. “The law does not apply to me because I serve God and God supersedes the law of the land. But only my particular view of God. Someone else’s view of God which might vary is false and blasphemous, goes without saying. And you’ll go to Hell.”
Bakker, Swaggart, D’Souza, Hovind. Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all …
Pagan Celtic divinities, anyone? Or West Africa’s vudun? Or just Zeus and Aphrodite? If Judgement Day ever arrives, maybe we’ll discover that one of those pantheons was really running things all the time.